{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart207.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart207.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart207.htm","text":"CHAPTER XIII\nHow Sir Lamorak met with Sir Meliagaunce, and fought\ntogether for the beauty of Dame Guenever.\nRIGHT so as they stood talking thus Sir Lamorak was ware how Sir\nLauncelot came riding straight toward them; then Sir Lamorak\nsaluted him, and he him again. And then Sir Lamorak asked Sir\nLauncelot if there were anything that he might do for him in\nthese marches. Nay, said Sir Launcelot, not at this time I thank\nyou. Then either departed from other, and Sir Lamorak rode again\nthereas he left the two knights, and then he found them hid in\nthe leaved wood. Fie on you, said Sir Lamorak, false cowards,\npity and shame it is that any of you should take the high order\nof knighthood. So Sir Lamorak departed from them, and within a\nwhile he met with Sir Meliagaunce. And then Sir Lamorak asked\nhim why he loved Queen Guenever as he did: For I was not far\nfrom you when ye made your complaint by the chapel. Did ye so?\nsaid Sir Meliagaunce, then will I abide by it: I love Queen\nGuenever, what will ye with it? I will prove and make good that\nshe is the fairest lady and most of beauty in the world. As to\nthat, said Sir Lamorak, I say nay thereto, for Queen Morgawse of\nOrkney, mother to Sir Gawaine, and his mother is the fairest\nqueen and lady that beareth the life. That is not so, said Sir\nMeliagaunce, and that will I prove with my hands upon thy body.\nWill ye so? said Sir Lamorak, and in a better quarrel keep I not\nto fight. Then they departed either from other in great wrath.\nAnd then they came riding together as it had been thunder, and\neither smote other so sore that their horses fell backward to the\nearth. And then they avoided their horses, and dressed their\nshields, and drew their swords. And then they hurtled together\nas wild boars, and thus they fought a great while. For\nMeliagaunce was a good man and of great might, but Sir Lamorak\nwas <373>hard big for him, and put him always aback, but either\nhad wounded other sore.\nAnd as they stood thus fighting, by fortune came Sir Launcelot\nand Sir Bleoberis riding. And then Sir Launcelot rode betwixt\nthem, and asked them for what cause they fought so together: And\nye are both knights of King Arthur!","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IX CHAPTER XIII","type":"page"}